Santa Rosa de Calchines

Santa Rosa de Calchines
Town
Santa Rosa de Calchines

Location of Santa Rosa in Argentina

Coordinates: 31°25′S 60°20′W / 31.417°S 60.333°W / -31.417; -60.333Coordinates: 31°25′S 60°20′W / 31.417°S 60.333°W / -31.417; -60.333
Country  Argentina
Province Santa Fe
Department Garay
Population
  Total 5,629
Time zone ART (UTC-3)
CPA base S3022
Dialing code +54 342

Santa Rosa de Calchines (commonly shortened to Santa Rosa) is a town (comuna) in the center of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 5,629 inhabitants per the 2001 census [INDEC]. It lies 55 km northeast of the provincial capital, by Provincial Route 1, on the Calchines stream within the western banks of the San Javier River (a tributary of the Paraná).

History

The town was originally founded in 1816 as an Indian reduction, with the name of San Miguel de Calchines, under the control of Franciscan missionaires. In 1856 the priest in charge of the reduction calculated the number of resident natives as 3,000, and asked for a town to be established. The mission was moved to San Javier in 1857, and then again to its original site in 1860.

In 1861 governor Pascual Rosas ordered the natives to be moved again to San Javier, but they rebelled and were split into three reductions: San Javier, Cayastá and Calchines. Rosas therefore decided to leave the matter as it was, founding three towns. Santa Rosa de Calchines was named in honor of St. Rose of Lima, its patron. The communal institutions were formally assembled on 14 July 1886.

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